Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wickershambles. Once in the White House President Hoover shuffled off the whole liquor question to the Wickersham Commission where it was diffused and submerged with other matters. When a 6-to-5 majority of the Commission reported Wet, he set aside their findings, declared against repeal of the 18th Amendment and appeared to the country Dryer than ever. For once the whisperings of his office staff that his mind was still "open" failed to convince. Rather it became understood that the President was impressed with some advice from Calvin Coolidge: that Herbert Hoover had back of him only one remaining...
Drift. But during the three Hoover years a Wet drift, slow & steady, has set in. The Wet East's dissatisfaction with Prohibition was manifest in the 1930 Congressional elections. This year the Wet vote in the House reached an all-time Prohibition peak of 187. The G. O. P. in New Jersey, Illinois and Vermont last month plumped for resubmission or repeal. A Literary Digest poll showed preponderant wet sentiment in every State except Kansas and North Carolina. And last week John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who with his father has given $350,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, wrote...
Hoover Hesitates. "General" Brown was one of the first White House politicians to notify the President of this real change on Prohibition and to advise him to meet it with new tactics. A Wet from Wet Toledo, Mr. Brown suggested a platform declaration promising the people some sort of vote on the question. For weeks President Hoover was reluctant to drop what he considered his neutrality and mix in on Prohibition. The subject, because it was so largely emotional, made him impatient and cross. It was his wish to fight out the 1932 campaign on economic issues. He liked...
Resubmission. The big question at the White House last week was: How Wet can the G. O. P. go in its platform and still hold "fair minded" Drys? The answer was necessarily a matter of word-juggling and hairsplitting. Should the iSth Amendment be mentioned by name? Should the party declare for resubmission to the people by the extra-constitutional means of a national referendum? Or should it simply fall back on a noncommittal recital of the standard method of altering the Constitution by Congress and the States? Should some tricky system of conventions, such as Secretary Hyde...
...much for one Negro drummer from the Charles Young Post of Charlotte, N. C. Swinging his drum to his shoulder, he dropped out of line, mopping a wet brow. He craned his neck at the Selfridge Field planes and with a sigh, sank to a resting position on his instrument. The crowd swallowed...